When fate, family and music become one, you find the Low Low Chariot.
Singer-songwriter JD Sutphin toured for years with his rock outfit, Madrone, gaining thousands of fans and even radio support. But even with their success, his maternal grandmother told him repeatedly “Country music is gonna find you.” And one fateful Christmas it did, in a decades old stack of songs unearthed by his family, written by his own grandfather who died on July 4th, 1974, before he could record them.
JD’s grandfather, Jim Freeman, an incredibly accomplished musician in his own right, toured with bluegrass greats Ralph Stanley and Bill Monroe.
JD learned these once forgotten songs. He discovered a storytelling style of music that engulfed him to the point of making a pilgrimage to Nashville.
He stood in front of the Ryman with tears and saw a path he needed to take. JD began to write his own songs on his grandfather’s prized Martin guitar. Within the first week he had ten songs unlike anything he had ever written. It was honest. It was simple. It was country.
This new band “The Low Low Chariot” alongside lifelong friends Blaine Davis and Joshua Mason named Low Low Chariot, after his grandfather’s single “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”.
Now performing live at notable festivals and venues, sharing the stage with Montgomery Gentry, Marshall Tucker Band, Deana Carter, Phil Vassar and more and gaining die-hard fans daily; the Low Low Chariot is ready to continue their story and honor that fate and family that created them.
The Low Low Chariot’s debut album, “Believer” recorded at the famed OmniSound studio in Nashville, Tennessee features ten tracks of explosive, melodic, hook-laden country music sure to establish them as a band with an incredible path in front of them.
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When fate, family and music become one, you find the Low Low Chariot.
Singer-songwriter JD Sutphin toured for years with his rock outfit, Madrone, gaining thousands of fans and even radio support. But even with their success, his maternal grandmother told him repeatedly “Country music is gonna find you.” And one fateful Christmas it did, in a decades old stack of songs unearthed by his family, written by his own grandfather who died on July 4th, 1974, before he could record them.
JD’s grandfather, Jim Freeman, an incredibly accomplished musician in his own right, toured with bluegrass greats Ralph Stanley and Bill Monroe.
JD learned these once forgotten songs. He discovered a storytelling style of music that engulfed him to the point of making a pilgrimage to Nashville.
He stood in front of the Ryman with tears and saw a path he needed to take. JD began to write his own songs on his grandfather’s prized Martin guitar. Within the first week he had ten songs unlike anything he had ever written. It was honest. It was simple. It was country.
This new band “The Low Low Chariot” alongside lifelong friends Blaine Davis and Joshua Mason named Low Low Chariot, after his grandfather’s single “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”.
Now performing live at notable festivals and venues, sharing the stage with Montgomery Gentry, Marshall Tucker Band, Deana Carter, Phil Vassar and more and gaining die-hard fans daily; the Low Low Chariot is ready to continue their story and honor that fate and family that created them.
The Low Low Chariot’s debut album, “Believer” recorded at the famed OmniSound studio in Nashville, Tennessee features ten tracks of explosive, melodic, hook-laden country music sure to establish them as a band with an incredible path in front of them.
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